Show GARDENS AGAIN Everyone who has space for a garden garden garden gar gar- den even en a very tiny garden should should now be bo planting it according to lo lo- lo cation The whole world Is learning to sow Its seed so that It shall bring forth an hundredfold The French people are very thrifty and good Iod farmers yet et they themselves admIt that they never succeeded In wringIng wringIng wringing wring wring- Ing from the soil such crops as they have l aYe been compelled to harvest for tor forthe he the benefit of oC their conquerors It Is difficult for us to realize In Inthis Inthis inthis this country that Belgium Is no longer the triangle of our school schooldays days but a mere ribbon of land a little more than twenty miles long and about six miles wide Here lives Uvee I i the King and Queen and what Is left of the court and th the government nt But the Belgium of geography Is being beIng be be- be- be being ing tilled by Its unwilling people for forthe forthe forthe the sake of the hated Germans Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- or of of miles of ot Northeastern Franco France are held by the Huns ana ann there the hapless French people are aro giving a forced labor more strenuous than any that made their great- great parents great rebel against the ruling class of France Yet these un unwilling nUng workers look u up from their own fields that are theirs no more and realize that these acres never before produced such bOl bountiful ful cro crop s even when tilled gladly by those who loved lo each fruitful wine and blossoming tree It Is a terrible thing for these people to be driven from their homes of which in many Instances no trace remains but that Is not more moro bitter than to sow and reap for the enemy from the fields that are under his Iron grasp The hardships these people endure the tho difficulties under which they work ought to be an inspiration to i everyone who has a few Cew feet of ot ground that are his very own Even In the tho parts of France that have ha been retaken tho the farmer finds himself confronted with all sorts of ot difficulties In some sonic fields there arc are areso so many unexploded shells that cultivation cultivation cultivation cul cul- Is a very perilous business Others have hae been sown with saltpetre saltpetre saltpetre salt salt- petre b by the Germans and In other vicinities where the foe toe had time for Ingenious barbarity they took some one ono part from every plow In the district so BO that all of them should be worthless Every farmer and whether they count their holdings by the hundreds of acres or by tho the limitations of ot a back yard In a city and a rented back yard rard at that should Impress this fact upon his mind the farm tarm g gardens of the United States had raised fruit and vegetables worth by tho the first of last September Tho The tomatoes and beans and potatoes came along after alter that and enriched many a cellar that would have been as bare as Mother Hubbards Hubbard's cupboard cup board but for tor the carefully tended patches of garden The truck gardener didn't lose loso anything All AU that he could raise found ready sale All he can raise this year will bo be contracted for Cor almost as soon as the seed Is sown This country must give more than It has ever given and every family that plans to support itself In so far tar as Is possible will be doing a real war service It is necessary that civilians should endure some privations In order that we may have food for our allies and for our own soldiers but It Jt is of oC the utmost Importance that the civilian population should realIze realize realize real real- ize that Uncle Sam expects It to take care of ot Itself also Gardens will do as much If it not more than anything else elGe to keep the soldier abroad and the citizen at home well fed ed Every boy and girl ought to plant a garden and make It a source of ot pride and profit |